“I think the data privacy issue is a global one… This growing nationalism — without making a political statement about it — it’s driving actually more complicated regulations and regulatory environments,” Mark Hurd, CEO, Oracle, said.

The Oracle Taleo Cloud Service now enables Indus Towers to identify and recruit top talent to fill specific telecom industry needs and delivers insights to continuously improve talent acquisition efficiency and effectiveness, according to an official statement.

Earlier this month, two US Congressmen reintroduced a bill to curb the use of H-1B visas, requiring workers on the H-1B visa to pay a minimum of $100,000, up from $60,000 now. The bill also removes the Master's degree exemption to the cap on the number of visas available.

After PSU banks, the government is likely to infuse capital in two chronically ill telecom PSUs BSNL and MTNL, and the Union Cabinet is likely to take a decision on 4G spectrum allocation to them by the third week of the current month after DoT places the note before it for consideration.

At a high-level meeting at the PMO late Tuesday, it was also decided that the two telcos will frame a Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) to reduce their employee strength, which will be followed by a reduction in the retirement age to 58.